p2pnet.net News:- Does the name paperghost ring a bell? It’s Chris Boyd’s nick.

“I now have an almost unlimited amount of time to jack in and hunt the lowest common denominators of the internet and make them pay,” he says on his web site. “There is offically [sic] nowhere for them to run, hide or beg for mercy. If you’re in the system - I’ll flush you out and mark you for deletion.

“I swear to God, if I were a Malware creator, or a rogue affiliate, or some company full of shady deals and even shadier ethics - I’d just give up, go home, board up the windows, sell the PC and hide under the bed.”

Now Boyd has hooked up with a company claiming it’s the “leading provider of security solutions for the management and control of greynet applications such as adware/spyware, instant messaging, webmail, P2P file sharing, web conferencing and instant voice”.

It and the 1,001 others.

Anyway, FaceTime Communications says it’s hired Boyd as security research manager and that as such, he’ll be be responsible for, “performing detailed research on new malware threats to enable rapid response and remediation solutions for FaceTime customers”.

The company’s IMPact Research Team is the, “largest intelligence and response organization dedicated to addressing the rapid proliferation of new adware/spyware, IM and P2P threats”.

Yup. You gotta watch those p2p threats.

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See:-
paperghost - Neil Diamond and Firefox infection, p2pnet, March 11, 2005
FaceTime Communications - FaceTime Strengthens Security Research Team With Appointment of Spyware Expert, August 16, 2005

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